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Archive for May, 2006

MS Office 2007 – The Soft Belly of the Beast

Let me jump right into the water and say: Microsoft’s new Office 2007 is a very different product from its predecessors and as such represents a very weak spot in the usually hardened Microsoft armor. This version of Office may start a huge switch-over to OpenOffice and alternatives.
This is the case not because Office 2007 [...]

Is NeoCon-ism Dead?!

…I wish. Anyway Der Spiegel dares ask the question and while it gives a glimpse at Neocon failure it does not completely deliver on explaining why neoconservatism is wrong from first principles.
Neoconservatism might look like it has one or two good ideas at first. This illusion comes because one of the core pillars of [...]

White House Correspondence Assoc.’s Dinner…

It is already old news apparently, but I’ve only just now seen the videos from the White House Correspondence Association dinner.
While seeing the first video, I felt at first a very strong cognitive dissonance as a fellow commenter on SE described it.
The dissonance arose because usually it takes intelligence and self-awareness for a person [...]

The REAL Vicky Pollard

THE mother of a West Lothian schoolgirl who became pregnant at the age of 11 today told how she was “proud” of her daughter.
Now read this Scotsman article that this comes from, and tell me she isn’t the real Vicky Pollard?
The eight months pregnant mum-to-be is reported to have quit school following a string of [...]

More on Blue Security supposed compromised

Continued from my previous post, Richi from Richi’Blog analyzes this correctly, I think:
Presumably a spammer has taken his list and “cleaned” it against the blue list, then done a diff? Like I say, I’m amazed it’s taken so long.
Quite clearly this spammer has only sent this eMail to people that were already on his list [...]

Blue Security’s DB compromised?

I just got the following by eMail, does anyone know how correct this is and whether it actually indicates a compromise of Blue Security’s eMail database?
From: GOLDEN HOLLINGSWORTH
You are being emailed because you are a user of BlueSecurity’s well-known software “BlueFrog.” http://www.bluesecurity.com/
Today, the BlueSecurity database became known to the worst spammers worldwide. Within 48 [...]